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A global team of engineers from the UK, US, and China has developed a breakthrough sensor system and manufacturing process to produce ultra-thin smart contact lenses.
The engineers from the University of Surrey – together with partners from Harvard University, University of Science and Technology of China, UK National Physical Laboratory, George Washington University and Zhejiang University Ningbo Research Institute – say their system can be directly incorporated onto soft contact lenses using an easy assembly method. The final design will provide comfort and biocompatibility, robustness, transparency, and detection sensitivity, which outperforms other smart lenses.
Dr Yunlong Zhao, the study’s corresponding author, said devices such as theirs could be used as a
Scientists Create New Contact Lens Sensor
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How the Human Eye is Challenging
As discussed several times in other articles, the human body is wet, gooey, and unbelievably complex with an extremely unforgiving environment. To put into perspective how difficult an environment the human body is, it’s objectively easier to design a circuit to operate in space or the deepest ocean.
Unlike most environments, anything that is operated in the human body has to cope with the conditions of the human body and have no impact on the environment around it. In other words, operating in the human body means that a device must have NO impact on bodily functions in any regard.